17-Oct-16 India is looking at ways of persuading Chinese medical tourists to go to India. Having attracted patients from Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, India is now targeting the Chinese market. More Chinese are suffering from diabetes and cancer, lifestyle diseases. The traditional “Come to us as we are very cheap” approach will not work in China. [image: IMTJ]

22-Oct-16 China's has plans to develop a far-reaching social credit system, a plan that the Communist Party hopes will build a culture of “sincerity” and a “harmonious socialist society". The plan attempts to control China's poorly regulated market economy, to punish companies selling poisoned food or phony medicine, to expose doctors taking bribes and uncover con men. [image: Independent]

22-Oct-16 Fujifilm India is planning to expand its medical devices business into high-end screening machines with an eye on both the domestic market and exports. The company relies on third-party manufacturers. Yasunobu Nishiyama, MD, said Fujifilm didn’t have plans to set up a manufacturing plant for medical devices in India but it would consider it, if volumes are high. [image: Fuji Film]

21-Oct-16 Keio University Hospital, one of Japan’s most prestigious medical institutions, has rolled out a network that facilitates collaboration between basic research and clinical healthcare. The new network is based on NEC's Software-Defined Networking, used to integrate networks that were divided between electronic charts and other medical care systems and basic research systems, and then connect these networks whenever necessary. [image: Keio University Hospital]

21-Oct-16 Paras Healthcare plans to launch a 220-bed specialty hospital and cancer center in Panchkula, India. The hospital will be the second healthcare facility launched in Panchkula by Paras Group. [image: Healthcare Design]

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